Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 186 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED PROGRAM
Subchapter 2 - CONSOLIDATION FOR REVIEW
Section 11-186-10 - Deadlines for filing and completion of applications

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 11-186-10

Current through February, 2024

(a) For purposes of consolidating for review completed applications that are or may be mutually exclusive or that present conflicting claims, the agency shall require that an application for a certificate of need pertaining to any of the following health care services, health care facilities, or equipment affecting the same health service area be filed and completed by the applicant on or before the following deadlines:

(1) Acute bed services involving new construction: the agency's first business day in January, May and September.

(2) Long term bed services involving new construction: the agency's first business day in March, July and November.

(3) Computed tomography, Magnetic resonance imaging and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: the agency's first business day in February, April, June, August, October and December.

(b) In the event that the agency determines that the same application pertains to two or more paragraphs of subsection (a), the agency shall determine the paragraph to which the application substantially belongs and the agency shall assign the application to that paragraph.

(c) Each paragraph of subsection (a) has three or more deadlines. Each deadline is the beginning of a review cycle for agency review of the applications pertaining to the same paragraph. The Agency shall consolidate for review in a review cycle those applications pertaining to the same paragraph that are filed and completed on or before an applicable deadline. If an application is not filed and completed on or before an applicable deadline, the agency shall not begin the agency review of the application until the next applicable review cycle after the application is filed and completed.

(d) Notwithstanding anything in this section to the contrary, this section shall not apply to an application for a certificate of need that satisfies the requirements of section 323D-45.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for required approval or to an emergency application for a certificate of need filed pursuant to section 11-186-99.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this section to the contrary, this section shall not apply to an application for a certificate of need from any acute inpatient facility located outside the island of Oahu.

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